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This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the bodythat it was malleable. -- .

The Malleable Body

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    A Paperback by Heidi Hausse

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/3/2025
      ISBN13: 9781526190833, 978-1526190833
      ISBN10: 1526190834

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      Book Synopsis
      This invaluable study reveals how practices for treating the loss of limbs in early modern Germany transformed western medicine. From amputations to mechanical arms, surgical and artisanal interventions forged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the bodythat it was malleable. -- .

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